Release Date: 10 September 2021
Label: EPR-Classic
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 608917722628
Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental
Description
An historically informed performance by Linus Roth of JS Bach solo violin sonatas.
The cycle of six solo Sonatas and Partitas by J.S. Bach is arguably one of the most powerful and most important compositions in musical history. These works have been with Linus Roth since he was nine years old, when he first learned the Gigue from the E major Partita, moving on by the age of twelve to the first Fugue in G minor to tackling at fifteen the Ciaconna, which represents a cosmos in its own right. By seventeen, Roth had finally learned the entire oeuvre for the first time and since then he is fortunate to have been able to grow as a musician through the constant and welcome challenge of interpreting these remarkable works.
Bach completed the Six Solo Sonatas and Partitas in 1720 in Koethen when he was appointed conductor of the court there. It was the only office he held in which he was not exclusively committed to 'musica sacra'. Nevertheless, the three solo Sonatas follow the form of the so- called 'Sonata da Chiesa' or Church Sonata. They each consist of four movements in the order slow-fast-slower-fast/er. The first movement is a free prelude in improvisational character, followed by a four-voiced Fugue. The third movement is song-like and the fourth resembles a brilliant Toccata.
Linus Roth, who received the ECHO KLASSIK Award in 2006 as 'Best Newcomer' for his debut CD on EMI, was honoured with his second ECHO award in 2017 for his recording of the violin concertos by Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky with the London Symphony Orchestra under Thomas Sanderling.
CRITICAL ACCLAIM
The violinist meets the technical challenges of the works with the greatest naturalness and at the same time also with deep emotive expressiveness." - Pizzicato. Awarded with 'Supersonic'
"[Roth's] approach results in an attractive 'inward' quality, superbly captured by the recorded sound, bringing a poised and meditative dimension to the fugues, in particular that of the A minor." – Performance 4 STARS, Recording 5 STARS Jan Smaczny, BBC Music Magazine, November '21
Tracklisting
Brussels Philharmonic, Kazushi Ono
Verita Baroque Ensemble
Pieter Wispelwey
Verita Baroque Ensemble
Roeland Hendrikx, Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie
Pieter Wispelwey
Dionysos Now!
Linus Roth & Petrit Ceku
Linus Roth
Linus Roth, London Symphony Orchestra & Thomas Sanderling
Linus Roth, Brussels Philharmonic, Robert Groslot
Linus Roth, Orquestra Johann Sebastian Rio
Linus Roth, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin
Linus Roth, London Symphony Orchestra & Thomas Sanderling
Linus Roth, Jose Gallardo, Janusz Wawrowski, Danjulo Ishizak
Linus Roth
